The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Empire and liberty.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

God always wants us to be growing.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.